PLATE CLXXIX. 
AMARYLLIS RETICULATA. 
Netted-flowered Lily- Daffodil. 
CLASS. VI. ORDER I. 
HEXANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Six Chives. One Pointal. 
ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER. 
Corota 6-petala, campanulata, Stigma tri- Brossom 6-petalled, bell-fhaped. Summit three- 
fidum. cleft. 
See AMARYLLIS RaDiata, Pl. XCV. Vol. II. 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER, 
Amaryllis fpatha multiflora ; corollis reticulatis, 
purpureis; foliis oblongis, reticulatis, bafi 
attenuatis, 
Lily Daffodil, fheath many flowered; bloffoms 
netted and purple; leaves oblong, netted, 
and tapered at the bafe. 
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REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 
1. A Petal and its Chive, attached, as it is in the fower. 
2. The Seed-bud, Shaft, and Summit. 
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Tue Amaryllis reticulata, 
a native of Brazil, South America, was firft cultivated in the year 1772, at 
the Hammerfmith nurfery 
; the bulbs had been received from Portugal by Edward Whittaker Gray, M. D. 
of the Britith Mufeum; and were by him communicated to Meffrs, Lee and Kennedy. Our drawing 
was made this fpring, in May, from a plant in the invaluable, and extenfive colleGtion of hothoufe _ 
plants, at Stepney, belonging to T. Evans, Efq. where it flowers annual y- 
To enfure the flowering of this plant, it is neceflary to plunge the pot in the heat ‘of the bark-bed 
of the hothoufe; and, during the winter months, to keep the earth rather dry, as the bulbs are very 
fubjeét to rot, without that precaution. It fhould be planted in a compofition of old rotten dung, oF 
leaf mould, and a {mall Proportion of loam, 
